Medical Intuitive Caroline Myss gives readers another opportunity for self-reflection and personal change. Here, Myss discusses the archetypes that govern the soul, how to use these archetypes to discover your "sacred contract" made before birth, and how to break through the barriers that keep you from your life's true path. This work broadens Myss's original focus on the spiritual/physical, blending the social concept of "life's work" into the matrix of personal health.

Mark Kurlansky, who wrote COD, now turns his attention to salt, looking at its history and the odd associations it has had for people: it has been seen variously as divine, aphrodisiac, good for preserving food, useful for reviving zombies, and of course indispensable in the cuisines of many nations. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.